Open Education Week

Vitrine REL partie 3
2026-03-25 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
La Vitrine REL est une série de présentations éclairs (10 min) permettant aux créatrices et créateurs de REL de partager le fruit de leurs travaux. La formule se veut légère et conviviale. L’événement est ouvert à toute personne du réseau de l’enseignement curieuse de prendre connaissance des nouvelles REL développées au Québec et au Canada francophone.
Avec la participation et la collaboration de : Claude Potvin, conseiller pédagogique à la fabriqueREL et Université Laval ainsi que Mélanie Brunet, bibliothécaire à l’Université d’Ottawa

Open Education Talks: User-Centric Approaches to OE and Affordability
2026-03-25 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Calgary, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada
Open Education Talks is a series of 15-minute lightning talks and digital posters about facets of open education. These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space for conversations about open education. We welcome proposals from educators, students, administrators, librarians, instructional designers, and all other roles related to the design, delivery, and evaluation of open education in post-secondary institutions. We encourage student-led or partnered talks that showcase the critical role of student leadership and student-educator collaborations in open education. To register for these Zoom sessions, visit: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuuhqjsiE9xwLFkoS4uK-KLd0bwXMbkC
User-Centric Approaches to OE and Affordability

Calm Tech Choices for Open Education: A Usability and Equity Framework for Faculty Support – Fanny Tsai (University of California, Irvine – California, USA)
Leaning into the Message of the Medium – Rosalyn Ediger (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology – Alberta, Canada)
Student Voices and Student Leadership in the McMaster Textbook Affordability Survey – Katie Harding, Rebecca Bekele, Joanne Kehoe (McMaster University – Ontario, Canada)
Making Openness Visible: Cost Indicators as an Open Education Practice – Rebecca Shortt and Arianna Cheveldave (BCcampus – British Columbia)
Small and Ugly OER: Reframing the Conversation to Ease Faculty into Open Education – Nancy A. Henke (University of Northern Colorado – Colorado, USA)

Pressbooks Around the World: Open Publishing in Practice Across Europe
2026-03-26 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Join us for a global conversation on open publishing in higher education, featuring Pressbooks partners from across Europe. In this panel, leaders from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), the Technological University of the Shannon (Ireland), and HfH Digital (Switzerland) will share how they are building and scaling open publishing networks to support various publishing initiatives.
Each panelist will showcase their Pressbooks network and highlight key projects, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how open publishing is being implemented in different national and institutional contexts. We’ll explore why each institution chose to launch a Pressbooks network, the types of publishing they support, and how these platforms are advancing institutional goals around openness, access, and teaching innovation.
Attendees will hear what each team is most proud of, lessons learned along the way, and what’s next for open publishing at their institutions.

Contemplative pedagogy and practices in the classroom launch
2026-03-27 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
In an increasingly fractured world, how can we cultivate deeper, more connected ways of learning? Contemplative practices and pedagogy (CP&P) offers a response by engaging the ‘whole person’ – mind, body, and spirit – in teaching and learning.
Join Concordia University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning to launch the new open educational resource (OER) on Contemplative practices and pedagogies in the classroom. This collection was co-created with our faculty interest group in 2025 with contributions from faculty, staff, students and guest speakers. Contributors documented testimonials, insights and practices that free to access and adapt for the Concordia community and beyond.
Agenda:

Opening remarks from Dr. Rosemary Reilly and Cristina Galofre Gomez, co-facilitators of the faculty interest group
Process of co-creating the open-access resource with faculty and preview of the contents with Josephine Guan
Framing this work as evidence of teaching excellence with Margo Echenberg, CTL, and Dr. Rachel Harris, Scholarly Publishing Librarian
Breakout discussions on focused topics led by the speakers:

Contemplative pedagogy in higher education led by Dr. Reilly
Hands-on dossier workshop with Margo and Dr. Harris

De la autoría a la publicación: cómo crear y compartir contenidos con eXeLearning
2026-04-03 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain
La sesión “De la autoría a la publicación: cómo crear y compartir contenidos con eXeLearning” ofrecerá una introducción práctica a esta herramienta para la creación de recursos educativos abiertos. Se presentarán sus utilidades y ventajas, así como los pasos esenciales para elaborar contenidos con eXeLearning y publicarlos posteriormente en Moodle. Además, se explicarán los distintos formatos de exportación y su relación con el depósito en repositorios institucionales, un aspecto especialmente relevante para el personal bibliotecario y de soporte a la docencia. Público destinatario: Profesorado y todos los perfiles profesionales que participan en el apoyo y la mejora de la docencia: personal de bibliotecas universitarias, servicios de publicaciones, institutos de ciencias de la educación, unidades de innovación y calidad docente, servicios de apoyo académico y tecnológico, y otros equipos implicados en los procesos formativos.

From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare
2026-04-08 10:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Cambridge, United States, Cambridge, MA, United States
Celebrate 25 years of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)—a bold experiment that became a global movement. This symposium brings together learners, educators, supporters, open knowledge leaders, and the MIT community to honor OCW’s extraordinary impact and to chart the future of open education.
Since its launch in 2001, OCW has empowered millions worldwide with free access to MIT course materials. This anniversary offers a moment to recognize the vibrant ecosystem that sustains open knowledge as a public good—and to reaffirm MIT’s mission-driven leadership in ensuring that high-quality learning remains accessible to all.
Join us for an engaging, dynamic, and celebratory program featuring MIT leadership, pioneering faculty, global learners, open education innovators, and philanthropic partners. Together, we will explore OCW’s legacy, its role in the evolving open ecosystem, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
